Description
Miscanthus is a big beautiful Asian grass sometimes known as silvergrass. I think the word silver captures some of the elegance of this plant, but you’ll see the true essence of its beauty on a windy day in October when the flowers are out.
Miscanthus x giganteus is a well established bio-fuel crop (check out wikipedia for A LOT of information on it!). In our landscape, it’s used as a privacy hedge in summer, and then I process the stalks into mulch each fall (the SunJoe chipper shredder is great for this!). It produces quite a bit of mulch for the amount of area it grows in. I like to mix the the light colored dry grass mulch with darker mulches like sticks, shredded leaves and woodchips to vary the look of the mulch.
It’s a great privacy hedge, the grass is beautiful as it grows and grows during the summer. The stalks reach onto a second floor deck where we have it planted!
This is a sterile cultivar (does not spread by seed) , it certainly spreads by the roots though! It will creep a few inches towards the sun each year.
